NHS hospitals have a completely different set of incentives than German hospitals that exist at a boundary between market capitalism and something entirely diff

NHS hospitals have a completely different set of incentives than German hospitals that exist at a boundary between market capitalism and something entirely different. Terminal ICU patients are the health care equivalent of a billable hours fountain. It's definitely not a deliberate "for a case like this" precaution but an emergent outcome of the specifics of how hospital funding is done and had been decried as a problem to be solved by should of the usual suspects.